Next week our son Mendy will, after months of basic training in the IDF’s special forces, take his army oath of allegiance at the Kotel. The title is schmaltzy. I know. I apologize. But at 49 I promised myself that I would try to be ever more honest and candid. Love and pride for my

developed between author and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and writer and Israel critic Max Blumenthal took a more serious turn yesterday when the latter, the son of Hillary Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal, successfully pressured the fundraising platform GoFundMe into removing an effort by the former to raise money in support of pro-Israel newspaper advertisements, the Observer

column that exposed the influence of his writings on Ms. Clinton, Max wrote to The Huffington Post demanding my column be removed. A veiled threat of legal proceedings for libel was included. It appears Max can malign the Jewish State and falsely accuse it of the most vile atrocities but the moment someone exposes him, he demands press censorship.